Cat napping
Question: Why, when I fall asleep for just a few minutes, do I feel worse
when I awake than I did before I dozed off?
Answer: Sleep has many different stages that run throughout a 90-minute
cycle. The reason you feel worse after only a brief nap is because when you are
asleep for only a short period you don’t have time to complete the full cycle,
which moves from very light sleep to deep sleep and then into dreaming—or
what is known as rapid eye movement—sleep.
It is necessary to have this full sleep cycle…
